Coverage Tracker Setup

This sets up a simple keyword tracker that the coverage-tracker skill runs for you. Think of it like a Google Alert: it watches for new coverage of the keywords you care about and tells you when something real shows up.

It is deliberately a different job from setting up newsjack monitoring. A coverage tracker answers "did my keyword get real coverage?" Newsjack monitoring (newsjack-monitor-setup) answers a bigger question: "can my company jump into a broader news story?" If the user wants the second one, use that skill instead.

Where you're running this

Two situations, and they change what you can finish here:

• You can save files and run commands (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, or a similar setup with shell, file, and network access). Here you can do the whole thing: save the tracker, run it once, and hand the recurring schedule to your agent. Before you decide you can't run the CLI, check whether newsjack is installed. It ships as a prebuilt, bundled binary — you do not need Go, a compiler, or any build/install step. Never look for a Go toolchain or tell the user they need a "Go environment" without checking first: run newsjack --version; if that's not on PATH, try the bundled location ~/.newsjack/bin/newsjack --version and use that full path everywhere if it works. The bundled binary is almost always already installed — verify, don't assume it's missing.
• You're in a plain chat window (Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Claude Cowork, or anything without file/command access). Here you can only draft. Write out the tracker config and the schedule prompt, then tell the user to move to a setup that can save and run things. Don't try to install or run anything, and don't tell the user it was saved or scheduled when it wasn't.

What to ask the user

Only ask for what you don't already know: